Anybody want to help take apart a fence?

[featherynscale]

There's something about sleeping nine or ten hours, and then waking up to find that a large check has made its way into one's bank account to make one feel empowered to make positive change.

So. Anybody want to help tear down and rebuild a wooden fence sometime in the next month or so?

This is the plan: Currently, EHQ has a lovely but somewhat damaged board fence around two of the four sides of its backyard. This fence is made up of six-inch boards mounted flush to each other on railings made out of 2x4s. We propose to take the boards off the current fence, reset them with four-inch gaps between them, build a rail and post system on the unfenced bits of the yard, and put up the spare boards on the other side. This should allow us to fence the yard without buying 300 feet of fence-staves, which are expensive.

This should keep the 7 1/2" wide dog on his side of the fence, while still admitting squirrels, rabbits, and other things that the dog likes to chase and sometimes catch and eat. It should also be a way to put up a dog-containing fence at minimal cost. It will also require a gate, but we have yet to figure out how to work that, so suggestions are welcome.

Comments

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Doesn't Fractal have a tendency to bust through those boards?

Gates are more complex, but it is basically a big cabinet door. The biggest challenge is getting two thick parrallel 4X4s into the grouns deep enough and solidly enough that they won't tilt when the gate is hung.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

He can chew through them, but it takes a while.
I figure the dog *can* get out of anything -- the fence is more for the purposes of reminding him where his territory ends and placating the Animal Control people. My goal is not to keep him from being able to escape, since that's impossible. The new goal is to make it so that he doesn't want to escape very often.

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I thought about electric fence wire for baron... cheap, and when electrified, keeps him from bashing into it.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I suspect that it would have to be electrified enough to so permanent damage in order to keep Fractal away from it, which is completely not worth it to me. Anything less, though, he'd just push through. That's why we're not using invisible fencing. He'd just ignore it and go on his merry way.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Really, the dog requires a Level 5 Containment Field to *keep* him anywhere. If he got bored enough (or entranced enough), he could probably work his way through wrought iron, it would just take him longer. He's...very dense.

As K says, the plan is to make it not worth his while to want to escape very often. There are several factors in line for this goal state...